In Her Shambles Penny Simpson Despite her mum and dad

Despite her mum and dad encouraging her to learn a new language

Set against a backdrop of seething Islamophobia

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it proved to be enormously popular and went through three editions in its first year and has continued to be reprinted since

In Her Shambles Penny Simpson Despite her mum and dadSpikey, provocative, declamatory, these energetic poems from Elizabeth Parker, In Her Shambles, her debut collection from Seren, sweep the reader along through their narratives, quite literally so in Rivers where friends and family members take on the various characteristics of different bodies of water. Parker likes to extend her symbols and metaphors beyond the short lyric, her poems are often more than two pages, giving them a discursive,